Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Individual Project for STS


Hi,

 As promised here are the details for the Individual Project, which must be submitted and also posted on your group blog.

You may submit any of the following topics for your individual project:

 1. Filipino Scientist
 2. Gadget or Technology
 3. News or Latest Development in Science and Technology

 Rules 
1. No repetition of topic/subject.
2. No plagiarism
3. Cite reference and sources
4. Project could be a commentary, narrative, investigative, or fiction piece about a subject falling on any of the three subject areas. 1. Filipino Scientist; 2. Gadget or Technology; and 3. News or Latest Development in Science and Technology
5. Format: (i) Essay (500 words excluding quotations, citations and references); (ii) Five to ten minute video or podcast with written summary; (iii) infographic with written description; and Photo essay with written introduction.

6. Project must be approved before work starts
7. Project should be submitted a month before the end of the Semester

Criteria: 
1. Originality of Concept
2. Creativity of Presentation
3. Conciseness of Content
4. Coherence of Concent
 You can submit and reserve your topic using the following forms:

Individual Project of STS THX 


Individual Project of STS THY

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

STS Lecture Notes 2nd Sem 2013: Topic Outline and Quotations

Caveat Lector/Reader Beware: These are my lecture notes written as topic outline wirh quotations for STS 2nd Sem 2013 for class THY and THX.  It is not the complete lecture, but it does give you an idea of what has been said or done. And it does not replace the lecture.

TOPICS

I, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
II. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN DAILY LIFE
III. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ARTS, LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
IV, SCIENCE, SCIENCE POLICY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


I, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The Fertile Crescent

Shift to Agriculture and setting up of cities between the Tigris and Euphrates

Setting of laws - Code of Hammurabi
Schools - Religion and Mathematics
Science as practical approach to business and agriculture 
Priest Scientists 
Trade, Commerce and Mathematics
The Wheel
The Plough and Seed Planter
Medical Instruments
Astronomy
Sun Dial


The Persian Empire

Use of geology and hydrology to access water and unite tribes
Military Success and Expansion
Cyrus the Great
War with the Greek States - Battle of Salamis
Invasion by Alexander the Great

The Greeks and Hellenism

Attitudes of Greek towards Science and Technology: No Difference between Science and Philosophy  - "The gods did not reveal everything to men at the beginning, but men as they seek in time something better" - Xenophanes

Victory at Salamis
Engineering and Use of Mathematics to develop water systems
Plato and Aristotle
Rise of Macedonia and Alexander the Great
Hellenism and the Spread of Greek Culture
Concept Science as an Art
Death of Alexander, the Partition of his Empire; and Ptolemy as Pharaoh of Egypt
Ptolemy I and Egypt:  The Great Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Great Library of Akexandria
Hero of Alexandria and the Steam Engine
Archimedes: Archimedes Principle; Archimedes Screw; the Claw and the Death 

The Americas:  Aztecs, Incas and the Mayas

The City States
Use of mathematics and engineering to build Tenochtichlan in a swamp land; advance water and sewage systems and pyramids.
Astronomy
Advance Mathematics the Concept of Zero
Use of the Gokden Mean
Collapse of the Maya City Statws
Destruction of Aztec, Inca and Maya Culture

China

Science and Industrialization in China
Filial Piety and the Mandate of Heaven
Chin Shi Huang or Shi Huang Di : Uniting China; The Great Wall of China; Persecution of Scholars and Book Burning
Zhang Heng and the Bronze Seismograph
Song Dynasty
Paper
Compass
Industrialization/ The terra-cotta Warriors and the Tomb of the First Emperor; and Ancient Machines of China
GunPowder
Su Song and the Celestial Engine
Scientists as Court Officials


The Golden Age of Islam

Expansion of Islam
Caliphate: Policy of Assimilate, Tolerance and Poll Tax
Policy of Arabic as State Language
The Abbasids
Rule of Haroun Al-Rashid and Al Mamun
Trade with China: Paper
Bayt al-Hikma - House of  Wisdom and the Dar al-Hikmah or House of Knowledge
Bayt al-Hisma - As Library; Translation; and Research Center

Scientists and Scholars of the Islamic Golden Age:

l-Jazari.  - Engineer & Mathematician - Elephant Clock

Moroccan Princess Fatima al-Fihri - Modern University

Egyptian physicist Alhazen - Study of optics and he invented the camera obscura

Andalusian physician al-Zahrawi -  use of catgut sutures and developed sophisticated surgical instruments, including scalpels, syringes, forceps and surgical needles. 

Scientists and Scholars did not specialize in one subject alone and although the Bayt Al- Hikma started out with studying Mathemathics it was involved in different studies:

Ishaq ibn Hunayn and Thabit ibn Qurrah - prepared a critical edition of Euclid's Elements

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwaraznli  is believed to have been one of the first to explore the use of Arabic numerals and wrote the first book on Algebra - Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabalah

Sons of Musa Ibn Shakir also known as Banu Musa or the Sons of Musa : Muhammad, Ahmad, and al-Hasan: 

- The Measurement of the Sphere, Trisection of the Angle, and Determination of Two Mean Proportionals to Form a Single Division between Two Given Quantities.

- celestial mechanics and the atom, 

- canal construction

- recruited one of the greatest of the ninth-century scholars, Thabit ibn Qurrah.

Thanit ibn Qurrah

He was fluent i. Syriac, Greek, and Arabic

Translated Greek Scientific writing anf produced seventy original works - mathematics, astronomy, astrology, ethics,  mechanics, music,  medicine,  physics, philosophy,  and the construction of scientific instruments.

Hunayn ibn Isha

Joanitius - who eventually translated the entire canon of Greek medical works into Arabic, including the Hippocratic oath.
 
Wrote around twenty-nine original medical treatises  and essays on ophthalmology - the anatomy and physiology of the eye and the treatment of various diseases which afflict vision, and included anatomical drawings.


HAROUN AL RASCHID
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One day, Haroun Al Raschid read
A book wherein the poet said: --

Where are the kings, and where the rest
Of those who once the world possessed?

They're gone with all their pomp and show,
They're gone the way that thou shalt go.

O thou who choosest for thy share
The world, and what the world calls fair,

Take all that it can give or lend,
But know that death is at the end!

Haroun Al Raschid bowed his head:
Tears fell upon the page he read.

HAROUN AL RASCHID
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




II. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN DAILY LIFE

Digital Life: internet and You: 

The Pros and Cons of Being Online
Philippines: Internet Penetration Rate; Social Media Penetration Rate: Smart Phone, Tablet and Phone Penetration Rate

Precautions and Reminders


III. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ARTS, LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Future: 
Film- Catching Fire

The Scientist
Film - The Fly (1958)


IV, SCIENCE, SCIENCE POLICY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT










Thursday, December 5, 2013

Reaction Paper: The Fly (1958)

After watching the 1958 Science Fiction film The Fly, in no more than  three (300) words. What is your opinion of the film? This is required. Please discuss briefly by answering the following questions:

Was the film entertaining and interesting? Why?

What was the film's commentary on Scientists and conduct of science? Would you consider it a morality play? Why?

How does it reflect the view on Science and Technology during the 1950s 

Deadline: December 12, 2013 at 12 noon.